Posts Categorized: Excerpt

Sep 23 2018
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Past and Present by Judy Penz Sheluk

Past and Present by Judy Penz Sheluk

Past & Present: A Marketville Mystery
by Judy PenzSheluk
About the Book

Past & Present: A Marketville Mystery
Cozy Mystery
2nd in Series
Superior Shores Press (September 21, 2018)
Paperback: 232 pages
ISBN-10: 0995000735
ISBN-13: 978-0995000735
Digital ASIN: B07FYZ6HPF

Sometimes the past reaches out to the present…

It’s been thirteen months since Calamity (Callie) Barnstable inherited a house in Marketville under the condition that she search for the person who murdered her mother thirty years earlier. She solves the mystery, but what next? Unemployment? Another nine-to-five job in Toronto?

Callie decides to set down roots in Marketville, take the skills and knowledge she acquired over the past year, and start her own business: …

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Jul 21 2018
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Darkwater Secrets by Robin Caroll – Excerpt and Giveaway

Darkwater Secrets by Robin Caroll – Excerpt and Giveaway

Welcome to the Darkwater Secrets by Robin Caroll blitz and giveaway, hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours!

ABOUT THE BOOK

Title: Darkwater Secrets
 
Author: Robin Caroll
 
Publisher: Gilead Publishing
 
Release Date: July 17, 2018
 
Genre: Inspirational Romantic Suspense

 

A murder investigation uncovers sordid secrets and haunting mistakes

The Darkwater Inn stands tall and proud in the French Quarter, the hub of New Orleans. Bourbon Street is bustling, and General Manager Adelaide Fountaine has her hands full with a hotel at capacity. She, along with everyone else, is shocked when a body is found: a hotel guest stabbed with a kitchen knife.

Detective Beau Savoie, Adelaide’s childhood friend, is on the case. As Beau digs into the victim’s past, he unearths a shocking connection between Adelaide and the …

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Jul 12 2018
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Deadly Games by Karen Rock – Excerpt

Deadly Games by Karen Rock – Excerpt

Deadly Games Karen Rock (Dallas After Dark)Publication date: July 17th 2018Genres: Adult, Romance, Suspense

ONE NIGHT ONLY
Special Agent Katherine Bowden doesn’t do girls’ nights out. She doesn’t do blazing hot dances with male strippers or unbelievable, uninhibited one-night-stands. If you ask her ex, all she does is work: study evidence, profile criminals, track them down. And now Katherine’s back home in Dallas, with a new set of all-male colleagues second-guessing her every move, and a possible serial killer hunting women just like her. But just this once, Katherine is going to try all those things she doesn’t do . . .

Growing up on the Reservation led Nash Hawkins down paths he’d rather forget. When his dream of joining the …

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Jul 03 2018
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A Study In Shifters by Majanka Verstraete – Excerpt and Giveaway

A Study In Shifters by Majanka Verstraete – Excerpt and Giveaway

A Study In ShiftersMajanka Verstraete(The Adventures of Marisol Holmes, #1)Publication date: June 26th 2018Genres: Paranormal, Young Adult

Seventeen-year-old Marisol Holmes may be the great-great-great granddaughter of Sherlock Holmes, but it’s hard to live up to the family name when only one mistake can spell your downfall. After trusting the wrong guy in a case gone totally wrong, Marisol convinces the Conclave, an underground organization of detectives solving supernatural cases, to give her a last chance to prove her worth, and maybe even heal her broken heart

After all, as a half-blood jaguar shifter, Marisol is uniquely qualified to solve this murder—and every scrap of evidence points toward the culprit being a fellow jaguar shifter. But is one of her own …

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Jun 08 2018
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A Cowboy of Convenience by Stacy Henrie – Review, Excerpt, and Giveaway

A Cowboy of Convenience by Stacy Henrie – Review, Excerpt, and Giveaway

On Tour with Prism Book Tours

A Cowboy of Convenience

(Sheridan Sweethearts #2)
By Stacy Henrie

Inspirational Historical Romance

Paperback & ebook, 288 Pages

June 1st 2018 by Love Inspired Historical

Groom by Agreement

A real home–it’s what Vienna Howe dearly wants for her young daughter. Yet the ramshackle property she just inherited hardly qualifies. She can’t afford the repairs–until foreman West McCall suggests they start a dude ranch together. For propriety’s sake, they’ll need a marriage in name only…a practical solution for two wary hearts.

Years ago, West convinced Vienna to marry a man of means, never realizing how cruel her husband could be. Guilt-ridden, he intends to secure the lovely widow’s future. But despite …

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Jun 05 2018
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Murder by the Marfa Lights by Denise Weeks – Excerpt #BrookeBlogsSummerPromo

Murder by the Marfa Lights by Denise Weeks – Excerpt #BrookeBlogsSummerPromo

Welcome to the first in a series of summer guest posts on Brooke Blogs featuring authors and bloggers! If you are interested in participating in the Brooke Blogs Summer Promo series, please email me for more information.

Murder by the Marfa Lights by Denise Weeks
An Ariadne French Mystery

MURDER BY THE MARFA LIGHTS is the first in the Ariadne French paranormal mystery series. Interested in fiction that points an unusual lens at the world and examines fantastical as well as normal experiences? Murder by the Marfa Lights by Denise Weeks is a cozy/traditional mystery with techie stuff and dark ride/woo-woo stuff for all readers. Ariadne French and her older sister Zoe are co-sleuths in this suspenseful …

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May 27 2018
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Honor Kills by Nanci Rathbun – Excerpt and Giveaway

Honor Kills by Nanci Rathbun – Excerpt and Giveaway

Honor Kills by Nanci Rathbun
Angelina Bonaparte Mysteries Book 3
Dark Chocolate Press LLC • March 14, 2018

A missing husband. A suspicious obituary. She’s not the only one hunting down a dead man’s footsteps.

As a divorcee, Angelina Bonaparte knows firsthand the lengths some men will go to escape responsibility. When a worried mother wants the private investigator to track down her missing husband, she’s eager to bring the deadbeat dad to justice. But even after she discovers the man’s obituary, she refuses to believe it until she sees the body. Tracking down the nurse who last saw him alive could be the missing puzzle piece to her client’s broken family.

But as she digs deeper, she realizes there’s something darker at play …

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May 26 2018
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Loving Grace by April Smith – Blitz with Excerpt and Giveaway

Loving Grace by April Smith – Blitz with Excerpt and Giveaway

Loving Grace by April Smith
Ambassador International • February 7, 2018

Grace Summer lands herself in a melon load of trouble when she becomes torn between the boy of her dreams and the boy almost next door.

As the newly crowned Watermelon Queen, she is thrust into the spotlight, meets the dreamy Warren Hartley, and continues trying to get over an accident that rocked her world. Mix in working with Beau Baron who Grace happens to fight with just about as much as breathing and the metaphorical sparks fly.

Like most things in life, Grace must learn to take the good with the bad. While the good is the handsome and fun Warren Hartley, the bad is Beau Baron—or at least being …

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May 17 2018
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The Forest Beyond the Earth by Matthew S. Cox – Excerpt and Giveaway

The Forest Beyond the Earth by Matthew S. Cox – Excerpt and Giveaway

Welcome to today’s stop on the tour for The Forest Beyond the Earth by Matthew S. Cox. I’m sharing an excerpt from the book, as well as the tour-wide giveaway for a $30 Amazon gift card and 2 signed copies of the book. Enjoy!

The Forest Beyond the Earth Matthew S. CoxPublication date: February 6th 2018Genres: Post-Apocalyptic, Young Adult

Under the watchful eye of the Mother Shrine, twelve-year-old Wisp ekes out a simple, but challenging life with Dad, foraging for food and losing herself in old books from the world that came before. She loves the Endless Forest ― except when the Tree Walkers come for her.

In ages past, the great rain of fire and ash destroyed the Earth, wiping …

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May 15 2018
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The Undiscovered Country by Mike Nemeth – Excerpt

The Undiscovered Country by Mike Nemeth – Excerpt

The Undiscovered Country by Mike Nemeth
Morgan James Fiction • May 15, 2018

When Randle Marks buried his abusive father three years ago, he thought he had escaped the gravitational pull of his dysfunctional family. Living in Florida, Randle was convicted of a crime he didn’t commit, served his time, wrote a book about his scientific work, and laid plans to marry his college sweetheart. Then his new beginnings were interrupted by his mother’s medical emergency. He is summoned to his boyhood home of Augusta, Georgia to face long-suppressed memories, contemptuous siblings, and his dying mother’s desperate attempts to conceal her secrets and preserve her dignity. He battles dispassionate doctors who are reluctant to waste resources on a terminal patient and …

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